We look at the whole picture, the entire lived experience that influences health.
Our work examines health through many lenses that intersect, and it often helps people who are underserved or experiencing trauma — for example, veterans suffering from PTSD, children with serious illness, low-income residents grappling with systemic racism and neglect, and others.
A burst of light. The sudden appearance of a bright, new star. In Latin, meaning “fresh, new, young.” These are all definitions of nova—and they are the inspiration behind our organization’s new name: Nova Institute for Health—of People, Places, and Planet.
The Maryland State Arts Council, the Fine Arts Office of the Maryland State Department of Education, and the Institute for Integrative Health presentedthe Veteran-Ready Community Arts Micro-credential course, a new suite of competency-based professional learning courses for facilitators of creative classrooms geared toward veterans.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND (May 22, 2019) — The Institute for Integrative Health, a health-centered nonprofit and think tank that focuses on improving optimal health for people
Institute Scholar, Judy Rollins, RN, PhD, is leading a study to understand how art may create a more empathetic and compassionate environment that helps patients feel
The Institute has been working to contribute to national conversations regarding community-based programming that impact individual and community health and well-being.
Institute Fellow, Andrew Ahn, MD, MPH, and his team, Dynamical Biomarkers Group, were named the second-place winner of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition,
Institute leaders developed a new definition of integrative health in collaboration with the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine.
A roundup of Institute Scholars and Fellows news, including Andrew Ahn, Stephen Woolf, George “Bud” Brainard and Jeffrey Greeson.
On September 26, 2016, the Institute for Integrative Health welcomed 200 guests for the dedication of the Green Road, an outdoor healing environment for injured military service members and their families at Naval Support Activity Bethesda, home of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
The Institute is honored to introduce our newest Scholar: Judy Rollins, PhD, RN, an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Providing an environment for innovation, the Institute’s Scholars and Fellows Programs enable accomplished visionaries (Scholars) and young trailblazers (Fellows) to take their work in pioneering directions.
Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD, a cherished educator and physician, lived life as she inspired others to live: with joy, gratitude, profound spirituality, reverence of the great outdoors, and a deep commitment to others—most importantly, her family, friends, colleagues, and medical students.
The final week of our Staff Wellness Challenge brought the focus back to our plates. Our goal was to eat the rainbow—specifically, the rainbow of fruits and vegetables.
George Brainard, Ph.D., a Scholar of the Institute for Integrative Health and a key member of NASA’s flexible lighting team, has received NASA’s Johnson Space Center Director’s Innovation Award.
US Ignite, a nonprofit organization promoting the creation of next-generation Internet applications, recognized the innovative work of Institute Scholar Emeritus David Lary with an award for “best use of locavore infrastructure.”
The Institute has received a $1 million grant from the TKF Foundation to create an outdoor healing space and study its impact on service members who spend time there.
The Institute collaborated with the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium and the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Health Policy in convening a meeting of stakeholders to develop strategies for influencing health care reform following passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Over the past thirty years, we’ve been part of a movement to shift the primary approach to health from one that focuses on disease to a more complete approach. We renamed the “Institute for Integrative Health” the Nova Institute for Health — of People, Places, and Planet because we are building on “person health” and looking at the context of peoples’ lives and communities as well as the health of the planet we all share.
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